Jessica-Rose Clark will have to wait until deep into 2021 before making her next appearance in the UFC.
The bantamweight veteran revealed on Thursday that she suffered a torn ACL in her knee that will require surgery. The typical recovery time for major reconstructive knee surgery like that ranges between nine months to one year, depending on recovery and rehabilitation.
“So I got some bad news,” Clark said in a video posted to her Instagram. “So I hurt my knee in camp for that last fight and then I hurt it again in the fight and then it turns out I have a torn ACL and I need to get ACL surgery now, which is going to put me out for about nine months.